ALi Corporation, the developer of Set-Top Box (STB) chipsets and iWedia, a provider of software solutions for TV devices to service operators and CE makers, announced that they have joined forces to provide a common offering for hybrid DVB+OTT STB. The offer is made of iWedia’s Teatro-3.0 software solution for Linux-based hybrid STB ported on ALi’s M3527 and M3727 STB chipsets.
ALi’s M3527 (resp. M3727) is described as a cost-effective HD HEVC DVB-S2 (resp. DVB-C) SoC with advanced security. It supports high performance RISC CPU, 2D vector graphic engine, DDR3, Ethernet, HDMI, USB and HD multi-format video decoder. Its advanced security engine has got the latest certifications of major CAS vendors. Whatever the chipset and the OS, the SDK exposes the same APIs (called AUI – ALi Unified Interface) which accelerates the porting of third-parties software solutions.
Sunghoon Kim, VP Sales at iWedia said:
“With Teatro-3.0 Pay TV operators can deliver a mix of broadcast and OTT video services on the main screen using their own branded UI. The M3527 and M3727 SoC from ALi allow for a very optimized STB BOM and they thus efficiently target the first segment of the hybrid STB market – also known as connected zappers – for which massive deployments are foreseen e.g., in LATAM and APAC.”
iWedia’s Teatro-3.0 includes a web browser optimized for embedded systems, a full-blown DVB stack as well as client software for HLS and DASH. Support for HbbTV 2 is proposed as an option
